Science funding and policy Books

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK"No one-conservative or liberal-should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself." - Senator Ted CruzWhen the Founding Fathers drafted our...

Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies mobile calling and internet were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of...

A humanist manifesto for the age of AI.Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what - and who - this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is...

The book focuses on the novel and unexplored research area of intersection between science, technology, and innovation and international affairs. The main objective of this book is to offer an original theoretical, analytical, and methodological...

The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that set out to explore open government geospatial data from an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers on the grant...

The United States, Taiwan, and China are bound within a "silicon triangle." Semiconductors link our geopolitics, our ongoing economic prosperity, and our technological competitiveness. This book draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary Hoover...

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians. Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing'...

Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it.Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise...

Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.If you're convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study,...

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real-an event that...

We are now witnessing the build-out of society's first foundationally new infrastructure in nearly a century: the Cloud. It is an ecosystem of information-digital hardware, at the heart of which resides massive warehouse-scale datacenters unlike anything...

The Future of U.S.India Security Cooperation provides an analytical overview of the state of the US-India strategic partnership from the U.S. and Indian perspectives.This book deals with the evolution, current status and potential of U.S.India strategic...

Implanting the human body with human/animal organs or implantable devices not only changes what you are but also changes who you are. If you were in need of an organ transplant, would you prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals, or...

How to put democracy at the heart of AI governance.Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide...

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives-and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics...

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life - for better or worse.Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word...

A radical and timely proposal for reinvigorating transformative scientific discovery.So rich was the scientific harvest of the early 20th century that it transformed entire industries and economies. Max Planck laid the foundation for quantum physics,...